So I bought the Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition recently, and this is essentially my first open-world RPG (aside from Borderlands which I didn't like and traded in for this game). The game itself is already some 60-100 hours long, and with the 5 DLC packs, it's got to be around 200 hours total, this is a bit overwhelming! I really want to do everything there is in this game, but when I look at the sheer amount of gameplay, it boggles my mind really! I might stop once I reach the Level 30 cap (but who knows how long it'll take... enemies don't really respawn in this game, so maybe I do need to do everything to reach Level 30!).

Have you guys ever been overwhelmed by games? I usually play FPS and jRPGs, which are never too overwhelming, compared to western RPGs like Oblivion and Fallout. I played Demon's Souls too, which wasn't bad at all! Quite underwhelming actually, in terms of scope, still great game.

I was totally overwhelmed by Advance Wars: Dual Strike. I played it to death and then realised it had modes that i hadn't even tryied, and a ton of maps to buy and play. Over 80hrs and i'd only scratched the surface.

Having played Oblivion to death, I managed to play Fallout 3 without any sense of being overwhelmed... infact it was quite the opposite, as they guide you along a lot more and there is a lot less side quests. Morrowind on the other hand... they give no map markers or anything so you have to remember who you're meant to meet and where. It was a bit of a nightmare, but hey, it was still fun.

I don't think I've ever felt like this, and I've played all of the big openworld games.


I guess the closest I felt was in Warhammer Online, as it plays so differently from most MMOs, being a big linear trawl with a bunch of optional areas. I'm used to being able to do what I want where I want in MMOs, having to choose then and there to do the optional quest or skip it forever was kinda weird.

I wouldn't kid yourself, the DLC packs, even combined, won't add another 100 hours. I'm just nitpicking here. And like Frostypink said, there's a lot less quests than say Oblivion, and the DLC packs (except for Broken Steel) all take place in their own little sections of the world, so you sort of experience them all at once.

Yeah, Fallout 3 was tiny compared to oblivion.

Well, the Broken Steel quests DID take place in their own areas... only the side quests were outside of those areas. It also changed the world a slight bit, but for the main part the story quests were in their own areas.

I finished all the DLC and everything but I'm only level 29 still... Rrrrr.

I finished all the DLC and everything but I'm only level 29 still... Rrrrr.

One thing I JUST realized yesterday is that if you play with companions (like the dog, or charon or something), when they kill the enemy, you get 0 experience - unless you deal 50% of the damage to the enemy or something. I found the companions to be REALLY powerful, since they apparently can't seem to die, and keep dealing good damage. I played with them for a little while, when I realized they were not only robbing me of challenge (I play on Hard Mode and enjoy the difficulty), but also XP now!

Also, UP your difficulty if you wanna raise levels, 150% normal XP if you play in VERY HARD mode. You're only 1 away from the level cap though.

I don't know what's wrong with me. Fallout 3 was completely underwhelming and I couldn't enjoy it at all. I have a friend who is like "HOLY FUCK FALLOUT 3" and talks about it at great lengths when he plays it, and I completely feign interest. I still can't. I can only play it using console commands just to mess around and such because the game itself just doesn't do it for me. Oblivion was fine, though. I loved that game and still do (need to reinstall!) and I never felt terribly bored in it. Hell, I could play Oblivion for hours. Fallout 3? Two hours if extremely lucky.

Morrowind blew me away, though. It was the first open world PC RPG that I played of that kind, and it captivated me in a way that nothing else ever has, and it remains one of my favourite games of all time. The world, the music, everything sucked you in and felt so immersive. Morrowind is the king of open world RPGs.

Morrowind was the first game that I played through an entire night and realized the sun was coming up before I could tear myself away from it. I actually forgot about the main quest for quite a while until I stumbled back into it later, because I could just wander Vvardenfell to my heart's content. I did get into the habit of abusing mark and recall though. As soon as I got a quest, I'd throw down a mark and be on my merry way. A few hours later when I remembered the initial task that set me off an that particular walkabout, I'd complete it and warp back to the quest giver. If it had been structured just a little differently, so that you weren't almost forced to make some kind of fighter/mage/thief hybrid to get through the late game with your sanity in tact, it would have been perfect.

The DLC only adds about 20-30 hours (Some adding more gameplay than others), and enemies do respawn, though I think it takes one or two "days" ingame save for a few areas with scripted respawns. I wouldn't call it overwhelming though. I played through it with several character builds and still found myself wanting more content. Oblivion is another story.. though tbh I couldn't do a lot of the smaller quests because they where boring as shit.

As for companions, not only can they die (GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY DOGMEAT), upon too many hits they will actually turn around and attack you.

I have to agree with some people here saying that morrowind was a bit overwhelming. When I first started, it confused the crap out of me. Once I got the hang of it though I just couldn't put it down. The ending was sort of disappointing.
Fallout 3 on the otherhand was not overwhelming. Except I would say one DLC, the mothership zeta one. Some aliens would have these overshields that would take FOREVER to bring down, and if you faced 3 of these at once plus 4-5 of those robot things together, you should hope to god you saved your camo suit from the anchorage DLC.
I actually want to find an overwhelming game

Well, the Broken Steel quests DID take place in their own areas... only the side quests were outside of those areas. It also changed the world a slight bit, but for the main part the story quests were in their own areas.

Well, i guess I meant that Broken Steel was the only one that added significant content to areas outside of the zones made specifically for the addon.

What about Dragon Age: Origins.

I'm a little disappointed there's no topic on this board yet, despite it being a fucking amazing game.

Anyway, talk about overwhelming. I'm just shy of 30 hours into the game, and under my gameplay statistics it says I've only completed 10 percent of the game. Keeping in mind I've done all sidequests I could find so far. This is just ridiculous really, but the game is so cool I just don't mind whatsoever.

Get Dragon Age if you want an overwhelming but amazing game.

what? it isn't overwhelming at all. it's pretty much 100% linear, they tell you where to go and you go there. I dont really understand how you can be overwhelmed at all.

it was awful